Market Watch
April 8, 2019
A field robotics start-up based on technology created by the University of Sydney's Australian Centre for Field Robotics has received a $6.5 million investment, thanks to Australia's longest running research commercialization fund, Uniseed.
Founded by University of Sydney Professor of Robotics...
Market Watch
April 5, 2019
Winemaking may be one of the modern era’s oldest industries, but today many point to climate change as a crisis that may threaten future viability of the wine industry in some regions. Winemakers and grape growers have embraced new...
Digital Farming
April 2, 2019
Even in our modern world, farming remains a core industry, writes Vitaly Kuprenko for IoT For All. Human beings engaged in agribusiness are working day and night to increase crop yield and livestock growth. Mixed reality (MR) and artificial...
Analytics
March 28, 2019
Agricultural technologies offer a pathway to a more sustainable future – one in which farmers can both improve their yields and drive down waste, writes Ayal Karmi for Scientific American. Artificial intelligence, data analytics, and even drones are among...
Irrigation
March 20, 2019
Prospera, an Israeli ag-tech company, plans to turn 60,000 irrigation pivots in open fields into artificial intelligence (AI) autonomous growing machines that can operate 24/7, writes Jennifer Kite-Powell on Forbes.com. Through a new partnership with irrigation company Valley, the...
Analytics
March 18, 2019
Leading the way in using drive increasingly sophisticated data and analytics tools to drive efficiencies and cut waste in agriculture and food production is John Deere, writes futurist Bernard Marr on Forbes.com. The 180-year-old manufacturer of farming and industrial machinery...
Digital Farming
March 13, 2019
Mauricio Nicocelli Netto and his colleagues from IMAmt got a first-hand look at the Swarmbot 5, which started tests this week all over Australia.
In the last week of February, me and two colleagues from Brazil's...
Market Watch
March 12, 2019
The end of the world is coming … eventually. Shortly before his death last year, famed physicist Stephen Hawking left us with several rather grim predictions for the future of Earth and life on it. At the top of...
Market Watch
March 12, 2019
It is one of the marvels of human innovation but artificial intelligence (AI) offers a tough competition to us, writes Rajesh Aggrawal on BusinessWorld.in. The days of speculating rain and sunshine may soon fade with artificial intelligence’s capability to...
Analytics
March 11, 2019
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A little over a week and a half ago, the 2019 Commodity Classic took over the sprawling Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL, for the annual celebration of American farmers and...
Market Watch
March 5, 2019
The Agricultural Price Commission in India has roped in computer major IBM to assess the real-time situation of cultivated land, crop health, and also project potential yield to avoid price crash with the help of precision farming, writes Chiranjeevi...
Market Watch
February 26, 2019
Plant ’19 is getting closer every day and I’m sure that many growers throughout the Midwest will be working hard to ensure that their planting equipment is ready for another period of intense use. In Australia, Harvest ’19 for...
Market Watch
February 26, 2019
Farm Dog, John Deere, and ADAMA recently previewed their mobile-to-sprayer integrated solution to 750 agriculture professionals at the 2019 Develop with Deere Conference in Chicago from January 23-24. The solution increases labor efficiency on the farm by simplifying information...
Analytics
February 25, 2019
Valmont Industries, Inc., a leading global provider of engineered products and services for infrastructure and irrigation equipment for agriculture and the parent company of Valley Irrigation, and Prospera Technologies Inc., a leading Israeli machine vision and artificial intelligence (AI)...
Data Management
February 22, 2019
Instagram models and pizza - strange bedfellows perhaps back in the Nineties - but in today’s anything-goes, Internet-driven society? Like milk and cookies, my friends….
Here’s another coupling to add to the strange bedfellows list: Domino’s Pizza and Artificial...
Analytics
February 21, 2019
https://youtu.be/nKAz-g7MAxs
John Deere's new Farm Forward video is a vision of how technology could drive increased productivity to feed a growing population. It was created to inspire conversations and help farmers visualize what the future of their farm will be....
Market Watch
February 21, 2019
iUNU, the computer vision company that helps growers apply artificial intelligence and machine learning in the greenhouse, has raised $7.5 million from BootstrapLabs and NCT Ventures, among others, according to an article on GreenhouseGrower.com. iUNU has grown significantly in...
Market Watch
February 19, 2019
“Smart farming,” which utilizes cutting-edge robotics and artificial intelligence, could hold the key to an agricultural resurgence in a nation of graying farmers and a general population reluctant to toil in the soil, according to an article by The...
Analytics
February 15, 2019
FluroSat, Australia’s leading crop health analytics startup, recently led a successful bid with commercial partners Agworld, PCT Agcloud, AgLink Australia, and CSIRO for a A$3M Cooperative Research Centres Project (CRC-P) grant. The aim of the grant funding is to...
Analytics
February 14, 2019
Ah yes, time again for our annual click-collecting effort here on PrecisionAg.com, otherwise known as our (quasi) annual list of companies that we think will make news in precision farming circles in 2019. Our 2018 entry in the series...
